Magic Kids (TV channel)

Magic Kids
Launched	January 12 1995
Closed	May 24 2006
Network	Pramer
Owned by	Liberty Media
Slogan	"Algo grande para los chicos"
Country	Argentina
Broadcast area	National
Headquarters	Ángel Carranza Nº 1700 (Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Sister channel(s)	Locomotion (2004-2005), The Big Channel

Magic Kids was a well known Argentinan cable channel where they were issued cartoons, television series and anime series programs for children and adolescents. The channel was founded, on January 12, 1995 and went off the air May 24, 2006, citing economic problems and lack of rating.

During it's most successful period, the signal varied launched merchandising, among which stand out the yo-yo Channel (1997), the magic cube and the monthly Magic Kids.

History

The story begins in Magic Kids 1995, when, in an opening ceremony at the Sheraton Hotel, it was the presentation of what would become his 11 years on screen. The executive head was the driver, Jorge Contreras with extensive experience in television documentary and journalism, but no experience in children's entertainment. However, this inexperience could be overcome, because in those days, thanks to programs such " Power Rangers "," X-Men "and" Spider-Man ", the channel became one of the most watched of the day. The idea was always to have "canned" (term used in the television industry to refer to sets purchased, and that used to come in tins similar to those in the movies). Moreover, the fact that it was a local landmark enabled it to quickly adapt to the tastes of viewers, something that failed to pan-regional signals. So it was that Magic Kids began with it's first cartoon: Hugo, which premiered the year after the debut of the channel and stayed until closing. The same thing happened with the Nivel X , which began with the singer driving Symbol, and then followed Lionel Campoy and Natalia Dim Finally, the third program of its own to appear on Magic Kids was " Anime Club " , led first by Leandro Oberto and then by Mariela Carril. In September of 2001 , the outbreak of the economic crisis in Argentina , which greatly hurt the signal. However, in the same month, it began broadcasting to all Latin America , becoming a pan-regional. This brought about a problem, because if Magic Kids wanted to continue with their regular programming would have to pay for the right to broadcast the series for the region. Instead, they opted to replace the old series programs that were affordable, which alienated many viewers. In addition, stopping issuing anime and unable to compete with other channels, Magic Kids began to lose steam slowly. In early 2006 , stopped producing its own series, and in May of that year, the signal went off the air. Pramer decided to air it out for lack of rating.

Presence in other countries

Before Magic Kids is a pan-regional signal, the channel was a unique signal in Argentina. Then, in some countries of Latin America (such as Peru , Chile , Colombia and Ecuador (in 1995 ), among others) opened the signal carried by satellite. In Chile , between 1995 and 1996 , was in various regional cable operators like TV Cable Intercom, who led the Magic Kids sign to the small towns of Santiago and Rancagua until 1996 , when the merger comes Metrópolis Intercom. In 1995 , Magic Kids were in the towns of Region I to Region III by the cable operator Multivision until 1997 , when you switch to VTR Cablexpress . In La Serena , was in the second half of 1995 for a month for Cablevision , replacing the sign of The Big Channel until 1996 , when she returned the signal. In an interview with Jorge Contreras of a popular magazine of Argentina , he said he could issue a Latin American programs that produced the channel, but no foreign series, because they had acquired the rights only to Argentina . In addition, cable operators said that America had launched the Kids Magic signal without authorization, for which he himself had to contact all operators to withdraw the signal to avoid problems. This situation eventually led to hundreds of reviews and complaints from viewers in Latin America to the cable operators for having taken the sign of Magic Kids in their respective countries.

Own productions

Own channel programs were produced in Argentina by the producer's Court and Pramer . These programs were very visible in that country. " To play with Hugo "was the first interactive Latin America , with a telephone set, via the phone keys, you could handle the character named Hugo in the various games. The channel made a similar production in 2001 , called " Kito Pizzas ", but this time with a pizza delivery man named Kito. Other programs included "The Time Milk," " Level X "," Anime Club "," Virtual Zone "and" Tsubasa ".

Notables Chronology and Programing of Magic Kids

1995

• On January 12th of 1995 , the new venture Pramer and Cablevision (which belonged to Eduardo Eurnekian) consisted of a double project: Magic Kids and Magic Club, but the latter became extinct by not having viewers and was replaced by The Big Channel .
• In May , opens a course of thirteen chapters of the first version of " Dragon Ball "made by Carl Macek.
• In June , opened the Japanese series " Saint Seya . "
• In August , opened its own block of cartoons on the air channel America 2, which also belonged to Eduardo Eurnekian , which was displayed for 1 hour at 12:00 and 17:00. He stayed until the end of 1996 .

1996

It premiered the first french animated series Cococinel, "Mr. Go", "The Trap Door" and WMAC Masters.

• On March 18 of 1996, opens its first own production, "Hugo, the Troll".
• In April, Sailor Moon, simultaneously with The Big Channel. Magic just completed the series, premiering R and S stages in June 1997, Sailor Moon Super S in April 1998 and Sailor Stars in July 1998.

1997

• In March , opens "La Hora de la Leche" Hosted by Gustavo Monje .
• In April , the dubbed version is released by Intertrack of Dragon Ball .

1998

• In May, Dragon Ball Z debuts .
• In June, Magic Kids presents " Scorers ".
• In August, "Captain Tsubasa" debuts.
• In September, under an agreement with the distributor TMS Entertainment , opens "The Magic Knight Rayearth".
• In December, opens "The Anime Club".

1999

• March: Ranma 1/2 arrives
• April: Zenki premiere , but Virtua Fighter will premiere intact.
• May: Pokémon debuts. Only issued the first batch of 52 episodes and in disarray.
• August: Premiere of B't X.
• November: Carland Cross arrives, the first traditionnal 26 episodes/26 minutes Belgian, Canadian and French series.

2000

• June: It opens in the Anime Club, Case Closed .
• September: within the same block, debuts Slayers . Opens Dragon Ball GT .
• October: due to failures in the issuance of Slayers by the tapes had not arrived for the last 2 episodes when it was replaced with Hello Kitty .
• November: In the Anime Club replace Hello Kitty and Candy Candy .

2001

• February: premiere incompletely, Slam Dunk.
• April: In the Anime Club is released Under Arrest .
• May: Debut The Vision of Escaflowne
• September: Magic becomes panregional. Had to be off the air several series for not being able to be traded outside of Argentina . This is how air out Dragon Ball Z , Ranma 1 / 2 , Slam Dunk , Detective Conan , Pokemon and many more are replaced by Ghost Sweeper Mikami, Orphen, Dr. Slump, Yamazaki and Voltron Vehicles. Also become so panregional are Under Arrest and Bt'X

2002

• In January, Argentina devalued and thus, Magic is in financial trouble ending with its closure in 2006, which makes the cost of canned tripled and thus the airing of many animes. Still, they managed to retrieve the first series of Dragon Ball pan-regional.
• In March, pan-regional premieres Koni Chan.
• In April, Magic Kids alters some hours of live programming to create a unique signal to Cablevision and Multicanal in the area of the federal Capital Buenos Aires, and to once again El Chavo (it was expensive to put the channel internationally) on the same schedule as before the pan-regional. The channel in this area and these cable operators, broadcast regular programming, but some times overlapping series, not just El Chavo but also Kenan & Kel and ALF, without disrupting schedules Live programs.
• September: Premiere of Jibaku-kun only for Capital and Greater Buenos Aires (Multichannel Signal for Cablevision and).
• October: Released Irresponsible Captain Tyler pan-regional level.

2003

• January: Return to Dragon Ball GT only for Capital and Greater Buenos Aires

Premiered Doraemon and Hunter X, within the unique signal to Cablevision and Multicanal in the area of Federal Capital and Greater Buenos Aires . Due to the exponential loss rating, Cablevision transmits only the channel from 0:00 AM to 12:00 PM, shared BocaTV but retransmits all day from 2005 until its closure.

2004

No significant changes occur during the year 2004 , however, was achieved with the squalid budget brand channel series Tsubasa "The Original" (Promoted as Captain Tsubasa) for Capital and Greater Buenos Aires

2005

• In January, take place the latest releases of the channel: "Webdiver", Detective School Q and chinese movie Zentrix . It also returns Dog City. This coincides with the last big investment was to expand the exclusive signal Multicanal and Cablevision the rest of Argentina and also to Uruguay and Paraguay .
• On December 31 , issued last self-produced programs. The next day, the schedule is changed to include only animated series. None of these would premiere. This is due to the untenable economic situation at the time of Pramer , owned by Liberty Media decided to auction it to correct judgments of more than U.S. $ 20 million in total (including a dispute over the economic losses of Magic and other channels in addition to the association with Italian group LAMDA amounting to a total of U.S. $ 2 million).

2006

• On May 26th of 2006 , after the end of his own productions (the last one out of the air was Tsubasa late February) and the grid paralyzed for a year, plus the change in policy from Liberty Global (owners of PRAMER ) to favor the production channels and 100% own and solve the great debt PRAMER held since 2004, Magic Kids are dismissed from the air. Mariela Carril (the former host of the Anime Club , expressed in number 42 of the magazine at the last minute Lazer who were denied a proposed restructuring of the channel to include more adult audience.

Cartoons

• Animaniacs .
• Beetlejuice .
• Red Beard .
• Cadillacs and Dinosaurs .
• Carland Cross .
• Casper .
• CineMagic .
• Conan the Adventurer .
• Creepy Crawlers .
• Dino Babies .
• Dog City .
• Doug .
• Dungeons & Dragons .
• Where's Wally? .
• Tomatoes Attack of the Murderers .
• The Magic School Bus .
• The New Pink Panther Show .
• Phantom 2040 .
• Garfield .
• Highlander: The Animated Series .
• hot wheels .
• Hulk .
• Inspector Gadget .
• Iron-Man .
• The Pink Panther .
• La Tropa Rex .
• The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog .
• Ninja Turtles .
• Tales from the Crypt .
• The graphites .
• The Biker Mice from Mars .
• The Berenstain Bears .
• The Flying Bears .
• Cowboys Moo Mesa .
• Street Sharks .
• Marsupilami .
• Pelswick .
• RoboCop .
• Rudo and his gang .
• Rugrats .
• Ren and Stimpy .
• Skeleton Warriors .
• Space Goofs .
• Spider-Man .
• Snoopy .
• The Tick: Animated Series .
• The Visionaries .
• Tom and Jerry .
• The Adventures of Hijitus .
• Tom and Oscar .
• Back to the Future: The Animated Series .
• X-Men .
• Zentrix .

References

• Versiones viejas de la página en "Internet Web Archive".

See Also

• Locomotion (TV channel)
• The Big Channel